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The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper
The poster of the movie The Great Muppet Caper.jpg
Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan
Directed by Jim Henson
Produced by
Written by
Starring
Music by Joe Raposo
Cinematography Oswald Morris
Edited by Ralph Kemplen
Production
companies
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • 26 June 1981 (1981-06-26) (US)
  • 30 July 1981 (1981-07-30) (UK)
Running time
97 minutes
Country
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Language English
Budget $14 million
Box office $31.2 million
The Great Muppet Caper: The Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by The Muppets
Released 1981
Label Atlantic
The Muppets chronology
The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack
(1979)
The Great Muppet Caper: Original Soundtrack
(1981)
The Muppets Take Manhattan: Original Soundtrack
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars

The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 mystery musical comedy film directed by Jim Henson about the Muppets who must travel to London, England to stop a jewel heist. It is the second of a series of live-action musical feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. The film was a British-American venture produced by Henson Associates and ITC Entertainment, and released by Universal Pictures on 26 June 1981. It is also the only Muppet feature film directed by Henson. Shot in Great Britain in 1980, the film was released shortly after the final series of The Muppet Show.

Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo the Great play newspaper reporters for the Daily Chronicle. Kermit and Fozzie, specifically, are playing identical twin reporters, which becomes the source of a running gag - supposedly, nobody can tell they are twins unless Fozzie removes his hat. While Gonzo is too busy taking pictures of a chicken, prominent London fashion designer Lady Holiday gets robbed of her jewels. The trio are eventually assigned to investigate the theft of the valuable jewels from Lady Holiday, which they have to beg for after their supervisor Mike Tarkenian dismisses them following the Daily Chronicle's headline about the twins joining the staff (while the other papers report on the jewel heist).

They travel to London to interview her, but with only $12 for the trip, they are forced to fly in the aeroplane's baggage hold and are thrown out of the plane as they arrive over Britain as it continues on to Italy. They stay at the dilapidated (but free) Happiness Hotel which is run by Pops and populated by Scooter, Rowlf the Dog, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, Sam Eagle, Swedish Chef, Rizzo the Rat, Annie Sue, and Lubbuck Lou and his Jughuggers. When Kermit seeks out Lady Holiday in her office however, he instead finds the alluring Miss Piggy, and mistakes her for the fashion designer. Piggy, who was interviewing for a job, poses as Lady Holliday, even going so far as to sneak into a local townhouse at 17 Highbrow Street to impress Kermit with her dwellings, much to the surprise of the actual British residents Neville and Dorcas.


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